Fisheries Project Manager

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Your impact

At Jacobs, we don’t settle – we’re always looking beyond to raise the bar and deliver with excellence. We apply our expertise and knowledge as we look into the future with great optimism and focus. We don’t settle until we give our best and know that we’re making a difference.  

We’re seeking a Fisheries Project Manager to support delivering world-class projects for our fisheries clients in our Bellevue office.

As a Fisheries Project Manager, you’ll be charged with leading a team of highly qualified and motivated engineers through the design process, interacting directly with clients to develop and deliver engineering design tasks in the planning and design of fish hatcheries and aquaculture systems, and mentoring ambitious mid-level engineers. We’ll ask you to grow your career by acting as a highly competent seller-doer that will be empowered to develop and manage projects in a trusting and supported environment.

You’ll serve as a Project Manager/Design Manager leading a technical team, performing technical tasks, and coordinating the use of resources to accomplish multiple, concurrent fisheries projects. Your responsibilities may include planning and design related management and technical support roles for upstream and downstream fish collection and sorting facilities, fish passage and screening, acclimation facilities, and aquaculture water treatment. Primary responsibilities include design of process water supply and treatment systems, utilities, wastewater, hydraulics, pipelines, pump stations, and coordination of design team activities. You’ll have the opportunity to grow professionally through participation on project teams delivering challenging projects while serving and developing clients.

We’ll rely on you to lead business development activities with key clients resulting in acquisition of new projects as well as perform the role of Project Manager supporting various projects and programs within a defined client portfolio. You’ll effectively lead and manage project teams throughout all phases of project planning, execution, and closeout; consistent with established project delivery processes to meet the scope, schedule, budget, and other specified requirements stated in each contract.

Using your fisheries technical expertise, you’ll play an integral role in leading and mentoring staff, forming long-term relationships with clients and pursuing new work, including strategy development, positioning, proposing, and negotiating contracts.   

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor's Degree in Civil, Mechanical, and/or Environmental Engineering.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) is required. If not a Washington State PE, must be able to obtain this within one year of hire.
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive civil engineering experience.
• Ongoing Project Management / Design Management experience providing leadership and oversight of project delivery.
  
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A Master's degree in Civil Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10 years of progressive civil engineering experience.
• Experience serving various clients involving a wide variety of fields including in engineering design projects related to fish hatcheries, aquaculture, drinking water systems or treatment, wastewater systems or treatment, water intakes, pump stations, or water resource projects.
• Demonstrated ability to lead the design and preparation of plans, specifications, estimates, studies, proposals and/or reports.